Beate Wassermann

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Beate Wassermann

Beate Wassermann (born June 28, 1947 in Gensungen ; † January 20, 2018 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and glass artist.

Life

Beate Wassermann spent the first years of her life in the small Hessian community Gensungen until her parents moved to Hamburg for professional reasons. There she found a pile of collector's pictures on a rubble plot next to her school. a. of film stars that were presented like icons on a golden background, so-called "gold film pictures" of the Dresden cigarette brand Constantin No. 23. Belinda Grace Gardner on this in the catalog "Beate Wassermann, Flügelschlag" (District Office Reinickendorf von Berlin, 2017):

" Beate Wassermann described the meter-high pile of discarded actors 'faces and the intensive consideration of collective images in her parents' albums as key experiences from which the essential motifs, colors and shapes of her later artistic work emerged ."

As a student, she lived in an artist's shared apartment on the Hamburg Alster, after which she lived and worked in a loft in Hamburg-Altona, before moving into her first own studio in Hamburg and finally a studio in the Künstlerhaus Hamburger Dosenfabrik.

Beate Wassermann has a son from her first marriage to the musician and experimental artist Wittwulf Malik: Jannis Malik (* 1980). Her second marriage was to Udo Pillokat (* 1944; † 1999), professor specializing in stage design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HfbK), who had also made a name for himself as a journalist and filmmaker.

education

Beate Wassermann began her training in 1969 at the University of the Arts in Berlin, but soon switched to the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. There she studied fine art with Kai Sudeck , Joe Tilson and Franz Erhard Walther . Painting became her main medium during her studies, which she finished in 1975.

Scholarships and teaching activities

In 1977 the artist Martin Kippenberger invited  Beate Wassermann to take part in his exhibition "Chimeric Pictures". In the same year she received a French scholarship from the Franco-German Youth Office.

This was followed in 1983 by the Italian “Villa Serpentara” grant from the Berlin Academy of Arts in Olevano Romano (Latium), in 1984 a work grant from the City of Hamburg and in 1987 a work grant from the Bonn Art Fund.

1990–1995 Beate Wassermann taught painting at the technical colleges for design in Hamburg and Hanover as well as the technical college for architecture in Hamburg.

Exhibitions and catalogs

Wall painting

In 1983 Beate Wassermann received her first solo exhibition in the Philomene Magers gallery . Two years later she showed her works for the first time in the Galerie Kammer in Hamburg (catalog for the exhibition: Beate Wassermann , Galerie Renate Kammer, Hamburg, text: Marina Schneede-Sczesny). A long-term cooperation developed with Galerie Kammer.

Individual exhibitions followed, for example in 1991 at the Oldenburger Kunstverein (catalog for the exhibition, Oldenburger Kunstverein, text: Doris von Drathen), in 1994 at the Tribeca Gallery in Milan (L'Elogio del Lontono, catalog for the exhibition, text: Tommaso Trini), 1998 in the Kunstverein Springhornhof in Neuenkirchen (painting 1993–1998, catalog for the exhibition, text: Iris Müller-Westermann), 2002 in the Milanese gallery Valeria Belvedere, 2007 in the Hamburg artist house Sootbörn and 2017 in the gallery ETAGE in the Berlin Museum Reinickendorf (“Flügelschlag “, Catalog for the exhibition, texts: Belinda Grace Gardner, Cornelia Gerner).

“Your pictures have opened up from initially formulated - condensed designs ... to a floating ... almost transparent, light-filled color scheme. " Belinda Grace Gardner in the" Wing Beats "catalog

Glass work / award

In 1995 Beate Wassermann expanded her artistic spectrum to include glass works in public and sacred spaces, which she realized together with Peters stained glass. She made her first work in 1995 for the Rogate Church in Hamburg. In 1997 she won first prize with her design for the St. Ansgar Chapel of the Archdiocese of Hamburg (1997). From then on, she furnished buildings almost every year with her abstract, large-scale glass work, mainly with bright, cheerful colors: such as a patrician house in Lübeck, the Ludwigshafen accident clinic, the Protestant church in Planckstadt near Mannheim, the old main building of the University of Hamburg, the »Room of Silence «In the Diakonie Gesundheitszentrum Kassel, the break hall of the Engelsby elementary school near Flensburg and the hospice in Leer / East Friesland.

Stained glass on the old university building in Hamburg

Literature / TV

  • 1986: “Galerie Gruppe Grün. 3 solo exhibitions - Koclowsky, Wassermann, Bartling. “Kunstforum International. Vol. 84, p. 303; Text: Heinz Thiel.
  • 1987: "The artist Beate Wassermann", Nike. No. 19, text: Doris von Drathen
  • 1988: "Review Beate Wassermann", Art Forum International No. 2
  • 1989: Art in public space, impulses from the 80s. Editor: Volker Plagemann. Pp. 300, 303, 337, DuMont 1989
  • 1990: Siebdruck Edition Beate Wassermann, publisher: Thomas Sanmann, text: Iris Müller-Westermann
  • 1995: NDR-TV, art forays / energy flows. The painter Beate Wassermann, director: Lucas M. Böhmer
  • 1996: Art forays, catalog for the exhibition. Publisher: Hamburg Cultural Foundation. Series of publications, artist worlds, text: Doris von Drathen
  • 1999: "Beate Wassermann - A glass wall in the accident clinic in Ludwigshafen", construction center special 6/99 *
  • 2011: Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, issue 95 / issue

Catalog raisonné Beate Wassermann: Iris Müller-Westermann, director of the Moderna Museet in Malmö, Sweden

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Mattes | hyperzine eK publishing studio | http://www.hyperzine.de : :: .. Dosenfabrik Hamburg .. ::. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Wittwulf Y Malik: Welcome to Wittwulf Y Malik. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
  3. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Udo Pillokat died. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 28, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  
  4. ↑ Beate Wassermann painter. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Home - Galerie Renate Kammer. Accessed February 28, 2018 .
  6. ^ Stained Glass Peters Studios: Stained Glass Peters Studios. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ev.-Luth. Meiendorf-Oldenfelde parish. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
  8. ^ Stained Glass Peters Studios: Stained Glass Peters Studios. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
  9. ^ Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Retrieved February 28, 2018 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Aquarius, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Gensings
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2018
Place of death Hamburg